LIBERTY CORNER — The Kienast quintuplets — Ted, Sara, William Gordon Jr., Abigail and Amy — are seen in this photo taken at their home in Liberty Corner on April 9, 1971.

The children had celebrated their first birthday in February that year, the first American set of surviving quintuplets to be conceived through the use of fertility drugs.

As babies, according to their mother Peggy Jo, they drank a total of 25 bottles of milk each day — requiring approximately 75 burpings — and went through 400 diaper changes a week. “They were cloth diapers,” Keinast said. “If they’d been disposables, our backyard would have been a landfill.”

The siblings were featured on numerous talk shows and commercials in the 1970s and appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1996.

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